Comprehensive Approaches to Healthy Work Design and Well-Being – Page 4

Pushed to Attend: Does Presenteeism Pressure Predict Presenteeism Behavior, Work Engagement, and Extra-Role Behaviors?

November 13, 2021November 12, 2021

This study examines whether organizational pressure to attend work when unwell (i.e., presenteeism pressure) incrementally predicts worker well-being and performance outcomes above and beyond other known predictors. Using data collected from Amazon?s Mechanical Turk (MTurk; NTime 1 =561), preliminary analyses show that presenteeism pressure predicted presenteeism behavior above and beyond presenteeism climate. Planned additional analyses (target NTime 2 =400) will test lagged incremental prediction of job engagement, organizational citizenship behaviors, and counterproductive work behaviors three months later. These results contribute further evidence that presenteeism pressure poses a substantial and unique threat to both workers and organizations.

Examining Physical Activity, Barriers to Physical Activity, and Sedentary Behavior for American Office Workers Experiencing Mandatory Work from Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic

November 13, 2021November 12, 2021

The purpose of this study was to examine possible changes in physical activity, barriers to physical activity, and sedentary behavior for full-time American office workers who experienced a period of mandatory work from home (WFH) during the COVID-19 pandemic. This cross-sectional survey study found that WFH was associated with additional energy and motivation to exercise and having a workout partner. However, physical activity was associated with exercising for health or stress reduction only when working at one?s workplace (WAW). As a practical implication, employees could capitalize on their energy and motivation to exercise when WFH.

History of occupational complexity and late-life dependency after age 70. A Nationwide Swedish register-based study

November 13, 2021November 12, 2021

The purpose of this register-based study was to investigate associations between different trajectories of occupational complexity across work life and late-life dependency among participants aged 70 and older. The results from this study indicate that working conditions early in the career should be targeted for intervention by increasing the level of occupational complexity, as it may have cumulative positive effects across the work life for late-life dependency.

Worker Well-Being and Employer Leadership During COVID-19

November 13, 2021November 12, 2021

The purpose of the current research was to examine the relationship between health climate, safety climate and well-being before and during the pandemic and the relationship with a TWH leadership training. We developed a COVID-19 Employee Impact Survey to send to an existing cohort of small business employees in May and September 2020. A decline in mean well-being score was observed between baseline and the COVID I survey (May 2020) while health and safety climates did not exhibit the same changes. As businesses continue to adapt to the operational changes that are brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, it is more important than ever for organizations to focus on the safety and health of their employees.

E-Mail as a Source of Stress and Burnout Symptoms: The Mediating Role of Work-Family Conflict

November 13, 2021November 12, 2021

Despite some findings that e-mail use can lead to symptoms of burnout and the experience of work-family conflict, no studies have addressed the relationship between e-mail as a source of stress and both burnout symptoms and work-family conflict. Additionally, no previous research has tested the mediation effect of work-family conflict in the relationship between e-mail as a source of stress and burnout symptoms. We conducted a cross-sectional study, in which 389 employees from a multinational company responded to an online survey. Our results provide evidence to consider that e-mail as a source of stress is likely to cause a conflict between an individual?s work and family domains, which by its turn, will lead to the experience of burnout symptoms.

Work in the Time of the Pandemic: Changes in the Quality of Working Life and Their Socio-Demographic and Work-Based Determinants

November 13, 2021November 12, 2021

Based on a heterogeneous sample of employees in Switzerland, the current study primarily aims to understand how the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic reflect in important aspects of the working life, such as income, workload, or working conditions. Subsequently, we seek to inspect whether the type of experienced changes in the quality of the working life are linked to employees? socio-demographic situation and social support available at their workplace, thereby unraveling potential risk and protective factors.

Examining the Relationship Between Work Demands and Burnout During COVID-19 and the Moderating Effects of Professional Social Support and Psychological Flexibility

November 12, 2021November 12, 2021

The objective of this study (to be completed by July 2021) is to assess the relationship between work demands and burnout among applied behavior analysis (ABA) practitioners, along with the moderating role of professional social support and psychological flexibility. This study extends previous burnout research within this professional demographic to understand how work demands may have changed for ABA practitioners in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. ABA practitioners are at higher risk of burnout due to characteristics of their work, and workloads for ABA practitioners are expected to be heavier during the COVID-19 pandemic, which may intensify physical and mental exhaustion. The study used a non-experimental design, and a link to a web-based survey was disseminated.

Examining the Dynamic Relationship between Emotional Exhaustion and CWB: the Moderating Role of Emotion-Focused Coping

November 12, 2021November 12, 2021

Taking a dynamic perspective and the latent change score modeling, we found that emotional exhaustion lead to subsequent increase in CWB over time; this positive relation only held for those having low emotion-focused coping skills. Taken together, employees with effective emotion-focused coping skills were less likely to conduct CWB in response to emotional exhaustion over time, whereas those lack of coping skills have higher chance to conduct CWB when constantly depleted. By examining the reciprocal relations between CWB and emotional exhaustion in a dynamic context, the current study offers several theoretical and practical implications.

The comparison of psychological and physical well-being using interdisciplinary methods of assessment

November 13, 2021November 12, 2021

Two methods of assessing well-being were compared. Psychological well-being was appraised by standardised questionnaires and physical well-being was established by a MAS recording mobility, loads of joints during activity of machining and assembling workers. The analysis of raw data showed some difficulties in comparing it and the results were not fully convergent. In the presented study psychological well-being was on the average level while physical well-being was high. It makes the general well-being hard to establish. However practical implications from this study are comprehensive, and may be useful in many areas in the organisation including HR, H&S and ergonomics.

A Mid-Decade Expansion to the National Occupational Research Agenda 2012-2026: Report from the Healthy Work Design Council Team Leading the 4th Objective on Chronic Conditions

November 13, 2021November 12, 2021

We aim to describe our work on the Healthy Work Design and Well-being (HWD) Cross-Sector Council of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to identify current gaps in the National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) pertaining to chronic conditions in the workplace and describe action plans to address these gaps. We focus on five primary areas for expansion. We propose short-term, mid-term and long-term outputs to carry out the expansion process. This works is a timely Mid-Decade Expansion to the National Occupational Research Agenda 2012-2026.